Atom is an open-source, multi-platform text editor developed by GitHub, having a simple and intuitive graphical user interface and a bunch of interesting features for writing: CSS, HTML, JavaScript and other web programming languages. Among others, it has support for macros, auto-completion a split screen feature and it integrates with the file manager.
The latest version available is Atom 0.199.0, which has been released a while ago, coming with the below changes:
- Atom now bundles Autocomplete Plus and the completion providers for HTML, CSS, Less, Sass, snippets, and the Atom API
- Opening editors is now significantly faster than previously releases
- Fixed an issue where packages with invalid Git repository URLs in their package.json file wouldn’t load
- Running atom with no arguments from the command line now re-opens the previously-opened windows. Use atom . to open the current working directory
- Fixed an issue that prevented Atom from re-opening its previously opened windows during startup on Linux
- The Fuzzy Finder now highlights the portions of the file path that match the search text
- The Command Palette now highlights the portions of the command name that match the search text
- Fixed an issue on Linux where the spell checker would fail to highlight misspelled words
- Fixed an issue where fs and path would be accidentally available as global variables
Installation instructions:
While there is no official Atom repository or PPA, there is a third party one, containing the latest versions of Atom, as it gets updated.
The below instructions should work on all the supported Ubuntu systems and derivatives: Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid Vervet, Ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr, Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Pinguy OS 14.04, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, Elementary OS 0.2 Luna, Deepin 2014, Peppermint Five, LXLE 14.04, Linux Lite 2.
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/atom
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install atom
If you are not happy with Atom and want to uninstall it, do:
$ sudo apt-get remove atom